'Brave' is very SPECIFIC and extremely PERSONAL. It can't be judged by people on the outside. Just can't. SOMETIMES brave means letting everyone else think you're a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.
What I was excited about was the OPPORTUNITY for punters to be part of POLITICS. The WHOLE idea was to allow the voices of people outside this WEIRDO palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media THING might be really positive.
I see HISTORY as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better LIFE outside of societal norms. In America, POSSIBLY because of WHATEVER the American dream is, this HAPPENS over and over again. These eras repeat.
My suggestion is that if you need SOMEONE outside your company to prepare a MISSION statement for you, then you REALLY don't know what your mission is, and you probably don't have one.
I wasn't TRYING to be an outlaw writer. I never HEARD of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all OUTSIDE the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just RECOGNIZEDALLIES: my people.
'If I Loved You.' All the WAY. Totally intimidated by it. From the OUTSIDE, it has this aura of being one of the GREATEST musical THEATERSCENES ever written.